While I haven’t had a chance to see more than about the first forty minutes so far, the movie “Julie and Julia” from a couple years back seems a funny and sympathetic telling of Julia Child’s story from the time she took up cooking in Paris right after WWII. According to the movie she was bored after the excitement and challenge of her time in the OSS, and after a couple of false starts like studying hat designing, she took up cooking because “I like to eat”. With typical Child bravado, she told the head of the cooking school that she didn’t want to start in the beginners class because “I already know how to boil an egg”, and bought her way into the advanced class where future chefs were being trained. Meryl Streep’s turn as Julia is a treat......
Welcome to the Canteen, Intolerant in NJ...thanks for adding more background.